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masses as pertaining to the christian religion, they may receive such religious instructions as leave a lasting impression on their characters and morals.

4th: - With reference to the care of the indigent.

In the country, except in the immediate vicinity - of Petersburg and at City Point. the civil authorities are careing for them.  In this city the influx of indigent from the rural districts has become so large that the civil authorities express themselves unable to care for them all, and I am issuing rations to about three hundred persons. I am however rapidly reducing the list, as industry revives, and in the course of a couple of months the issue will be small

5th: - As to the supply of labor being adapted to the demand.

Every healthy man and woman can find employment in the rural districts if they can be induced to go there; but the unwise attempts of the colored people to imitate the whites in the matter of out-door labor for their women, has the effect of keeping many of the latter class idle, they being entirely unfitted for the duties of 

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